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June 24, 2025 · 47 min
Continuing the conversation on how an abundant mindset can transform your spiritual journey and family life.
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In this video 0:00 Understanding Abundant Living5:10 The Good Shepherd and Living Water20:22 Living Water vs. Dead Water28:34 The Source of Abundant Life
Understanding Abundant Living 0:06 And send the disciples. We truly hope you're encouraged by this week's message. And so right now, we're gonna jump into our message. If you joined us last week, if you did that's completely0:18 okay. Pastor Diego encouraged us with a message talking about which mindset, and it was a parallel between 2 mindsets, the abundant mindset and the scarcity mindset. Well I'd love to0:30 consider and continue that conversation, but instead of looking at which mindset, fully dealing with the abundant mindset. Because this is what I think would be great for us to have a conversation on. You know,0:42 names matter and thinking about names is important. You know, whenever we maybe have a new child, we usually spend a lot of time thinking about what we're going to name our child. Whether you0:54 have a new pet, you'll think. What are we gonna name this pet? What what what's the name gonna be? What are they gonna be about? Some of us will go as far as naming our cars or even our Harleys or whatever it may be.1:06 We just start naming things that are in our lives. Well, I remember a few years back, I was talking to pastor Diego, founding pastor, and I told him, dad, we're Abundant Living Family Church. Where did1:18 you come up with that name, Abundant Living Family Church? Why why out of all the names you could have picked, there's a lot of churches out there called Grace Church. There's a lot of churches called First1:29 Baptist Church. There's a lot of First Baptist churches that been the first. You know, have you ever noticed that? So it's kind of interesting. And so there's something in a name. And so I
1:41 asked him, what what do you think about the name? He said, well first of all in the nineties, the longer you could make your name the more impressive that would be. So he said, I I went with Abundant Living Family
1:52 Church, which is why today when we invite our friends to church, we just say come to my church a l f c, because no 1 can remember the order of the church. Is it Abundant Family Living Church? Is it
2:04 abundant I don't know if you ever experienced that before, but we just that's why I just we just say Aleph C now, but in the nineties, you make it as long as possible. That's why you have First Ebenezer Church of God in
2:15 Christ of Episcopal of Detroit, Michigan in, and then they named the zip code and everything else. Because that that was the thing back in the day, it was the longest. So the more words you
2:27 get, the more associations you can add to it, the better it was. So I asked him, what's an abundant living family church? And you know pastor Diego, he just said the first part was he just said, well the family part is
2:38 pretty obvious. I I wanted I wanted to, you know, build a church for the Lord and I wanted to build a community for the Lord that was family focused. And he said, because I had gone to so many churches before that 1
2:49 ministry kind of had superior superiority over another. And so you would go to the kids ministry and maybe it was dilapidated or it wasn't taken care of, or you go to youth ministry and wallpaper was falling off the
3:01 walls, and you know, the youth didn't have anything that they can hang out or play. And so he said, I wanted to build a church that the whole family could be ministered to. The whole family could be encouraged all the
3:12 way from kids to adulthood. And so I said, that that makes sense. And then I said, okay. Well what about the first part? He said, well, you know, in a time in my life, John 10 10 was important for me.
3:24 Was that and many of us know pastor Diego's story about how he had been let go from his previous church and he was really having 3 jobs to take care of the family and he really didn't know. He had no desire to start a
3:36 church, no desire to found a church. And so when he did decide to do it and he chose abundant living, it was because he was preaching to himself. That in a time of brokenness, that in a time of disconnection from
3:48 the Lord, in a time because we know John 10 10, which we're going to read here in a little bit, it says that the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy and I come that you may have life and have it abundantly. And so it
3:58 was this idea that he said, I felt like the thief came to steal, kill, and destroy my life. And I found that the more I leaned into Christ, the more I found an abundant life that's found in
4:10 Christ. And so I think that's great because we have a lot of new people that have joined our church, and we have a lot of new people who are coming to our church. And I And in growth track, you learn a lot about the
4:20 history of our church. But in a message that sense, I think it's important for us to see what it means when we say abundant living. Because when we say abundant living, we're not talking about
4:31 living a life of abundance in materialism. That's not what we're talking about. Now can God bless you with material things? Does that happen? Does he open up doors? Yeah, definitely. But I mean Bill Gates and
4:43 Elon Musk aren't Christians and they have a lot of money and a lot of abundance in that sense. But there may be some other things they don't have that only the Lord can give, which is what we're gonna talk
4:55 about today. So that in the future, if you walk away and you say, hey, abundant living is my home church. You know what type of abundance and what type of life that we're talking about. And so we thought
5:07 I thought what better way than talking about the abundant mindset that Christ encourages us to have. And so right now we're gonna first read our passage of scripture and it's found in John chapter 10 verse 7. So if you
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5:18 would join me in standing for the honor of reading God's word, we will read this morning and discover this truth today. Today, we're gonna read just verses 7 all the way down to 18. So
5:30 John 10 7 to 18 and it says this. So Jesus again said to them, truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and
5:42 robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal,
5:54 kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays his down, his life down for the sheep. He who is a hired
6:05 hand and not a shepherd who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and
6:17 cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me. Just as the father knows me, I know the father and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have
6:29 other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also and they will listen to my voice. So there will be 1 flock and 1 shepherd. For this reason, the father loves me because I laid down my life that I may take it
6:41 up again. No 1 takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my
6:52 father. Let's pray. Lord, as we discover your truth today, father God, I pray that none of us came here today to hear an opinion of man or philosophy as a man. We came here today to hear you, Lord. May
7:04 your word go forth, Father God. May the spirit begin to speak to us and minister to us, Lord. And may we grow in our knowledge of your great love and your great mercy and your great grace to us. We thank you, Lord, that
7:16 Jesus Christ was the shepherd that laid his life down for us. And may we learn that today and that truth today. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. You may be seated. Thank you so much.
7:28 You know, part of the passage that we just read is a lot of times if you've read John 10 10 before, it's always important to take all of the chapters and proceeding chapters into account. And so, some of the things that
7:40 Jesus is saying in this moment is most of us when we when we think of the thief only comes to steal, kill and destroy, we're just immediately imagining Satan. Now, there's an element of truth of that
7:52 by proxy, but the actual people that Jesus is talking about is he's talking about false leaders and false teachings. Those false mindsets is what he's talking
8:04 about. He's talking about sheep that are led astray by false teachers, false gurus, false ideologies, false hopes. Now, if you follow that trail of tears
8:16 long enough, you will know that Satan is originally the instigator of those things, but he's not necessarily just pointing out to Satan being the thief that steal, kills, and destroys.
8:27 What he's saying is he's saying these thoughts and these teachings, these things you find on YouTube, these things you start Googling, these things that start
8:39 derailing your faith and your hope to Christ. And you say, oh, my friend put me on this guy who's teaching me meditation.
8:52 And he talks to us about how this God will give you peace, or this thing will give you peace, or my friend put me on to this person that I'm listening to on LinkedIn or Facebook, and now
9:04 I'm following them. And so I'm going to church on Sundays while I'm also pursuing these other thoughts and these other ideas and these other passions. And so what Jesus begins to say is he says, those
9:15 thieves, those thoughts, those teachings will aim to steal, kill, and destroy. Because it will not lead you anywhere.
9:28 It'll only take away. And so what happens is when Jesus begins to talk about this, he then begins to parallel and say, but I I am the good shepherd.
9:40 I'm the 1 who will be the only 1 that is willing to lay my life down for my sheep. Those philosophies, those gurus, those ideologies, those are nice, but would they lay their
9:52 life down for little o you? Would they go on a cross naked and shamed and beaten for you? No.
10:04 They're just posting on Tuesdays and Thursdays to YouTube, and then they turn that monetization on. And as long as they keep tickling, we keep searching. That's it. So,
10:16 that's the kitty's in this 1 today. And so what happens is is Jesus begins to tell us, I'm the shepherd. I'm the 1 who's truly looking out to care for you. I'm the 1 who's truly
10:28 looking out to guide you, and and the sheep will know my voice. And so then what happens is is Jesus gives us the picture that you and I are sheep. And you know sheep have been created and they
10:40 have over the years been adopted to truly be domesticated. You you know a sheep cannot live on its own? You know that? Like, there's no such thing as a wild sheep.
10:54 Just like there's no such thing as a wild French bulldog. Take a bulldog, an English bulldog and set it out into a field and come back a week later. That
11:06 thing's dead because it's been bred to be a house dog. It's been bred to be something that you look at. And so without you as the caretaker of a bulldog,
11:18 it can't live on its own. That's the same thing as a sheep. And so, a sheep that's not cared for that usually looks like this. I have a picture. This is usually what a sheep will look for that's
11:30 uncared for. Do I have to come closer to this screen in order for us to see it? This is what a sheep normally looks like, uncared for. This was only after a few months. This sheep was getting by by itself for a little
11:42 bit, but there was no 1 there to shave it. There was no 1 there to bathe it. God, preach it. When they actually shaved this 1, it was actually emaciated. So on the
11:54 outside, it may look like it's fat and puffy and getting its food, but that was all just a deflective tactic. When they shaved his fur, he was actually emaciated and
12:06 malnourished because he had to eat on his own and I think that's really reminiscent of us when we get all these other teachings and and and as long as I got a suit and a tie, and I, and as long as I
12:18 got the right handbag, and as long as I got the right car, maybe no 1 will recognize that I'm really emaciated, and I'm really hurting right now, and I'm really in pain right now,
12:29 but on the outside, I look fluffy. McDonald's can get you fluffy. Yes, pastor. But that don't mean nothing. Yes. And so his hooves
12:41 haven't been cared for. And so what happens is is without this sheep getting a shepherd, it's headed to what? To destruction. Okay?
12:53 So what happens in Jesus' day, oftentimes if you were a wealthy land owner and you had a lot of sheep, you would hire a shepherd to help you with your land, but that shepherd was in it for what the
13:05 job was. The shepherd was in it for the pay. And so what would happen is, if a wolf or a robber would come, the shepherd would clock out. As you should.
13:18 Listen, if I'm working at Verizon and someone comes to rob the place, I'm walking out the door, I'm opening the cash register because I'm going, this ain't my business. But
13:30 come do it at my house, it'll be totally different story, because this is my house, this is my place. So what Jesus says is he says, these sheep people are mine.
13:42 No 1, no 1 will protect and live for these sheep like I will. And he says, anyone else, any other mindset, any other teaching that does not come from
13:53 me. You wanna know what the end result will be? It will be to steal, to kill, and to destroy. And each mindset will lead you to a different thing. Yeah. And I'll talk to you in a
14:05 second, but some things will be stolen from you. Some things will be killed from you. Some things will be destroyed. That's why we get to the place of destruction in our life. And so what happens is
14:17 is we realize this thing, Jesus is telling us there's this thing that's been missing all along as we've been pursuing other things. And for the people of Israel, it was often false teachers. It was
14:29 often rabbis that would just tickle their ears and tell them what they wanted to hear. And that's what Jesus was saying. He said, there's been some people before me that have called themselves Messiah. There have been
14:40 some people before me that have called themselves Rabbi, but I'm here to do something new. You know, a few months ago, early at this top of this year, my 1 of 1 of the things my wife likes to do is is, she likes to do
14:51 cruises for our family vacations because they're easy. You get there, you're on the cruise 7 days, you don't have to leave. It just it just they're not much to think about and she likes that aspect. Well, you know,
15:04 we did this thing during COVID that many of you others may have done is we had a COVID baby. Okay? So we were in quarantine, there was nothing else to do, and so
15:17 we had a baby. And that was our youngest and our latest. It's called the covid baby, if you've never heard of it and I see them in children's church every Sunday.
15:29 And so this was our first family vacation now with like, like true 1 with with Thomas in our life. And so we we've been on a cruise before with Matthias, but now we got a second kid. And so
15:41 a second kid is there with us, Thomas, who at that time was almost gonna be 2. And so, we go and and we get I mean, you guys know cruise ships, some of them are very nice, but all the cabins
15:53 are genuinely pretty small. They're pretty tiny, like they're they're just there to sleep. So so we go we go into our cabin and there's a queen bed there and just a queen bed. And so we're
16:05 thinking to ourselves, I'm like, I'm not a little guy. We did this once before with Matthias, but but now we have a a second 1. And so we're gonna sleep on
16:16 this bed with me, who's not a little guy. My wife Ashley, who's taller than me and more athletic than me. So she alone
16:28 can cover the queen, I alone can cover the queen, and then we add a 4 year old and a 2 year old to the mix. So we're talking out loud and our attendant who's helping us turn down our our room every day, he
16:40 comes up and he says, oh, guys, I forgot to tell you, that little couch over there, I can put a bed sheet on it, and 1 of your kids can sleep there. Well, it's
16:52 like it's like the size of my shoulders. So I know my boys are gonna roll off of it, for sure. So so my so I tell my wife, I'll sleep on it. I'll
17:04 sleep on it. No big deal. She's like, okay. You know, no debate. No rock, paper, scissors, anything like that. Yeah. Go go for it. Okay. So
17:16 I put the little the little sheet there and I sleep and, man, this thing was hard, this thing was uncomfortable. I sleep well, I'm sleeping on it for 3 days, waking up every day, back sore, everything sore. So it
17:28 just so happens, we had went with pastor Aaron, our Pomona campus pastor, who was just doing our generosity moment. We went with him and his family. So, about the third night, our boys want to go over to their
17:40 room to hang out with his daughters. And so, we go over there to drop the boys off to hang out. And sure enough, where my sofa was that I was sleeping, there was
17:52 another queen bed right there. And I look at them, I say, hey, how y'all get that queen bed? And they
18:03 said, I said, my room has a sofa. They said, yes. That's the sofa. I said, hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
18:17 They said, yeah, this thing comes out from under it, it lifts up, and it turns into a sofa. I said, how y'all know about that?
18:29 They said, our attendant told us. I said, your attendant told you guys? And they go, yeah. He makes it up every day for us. And
18:41 they go, what did your attendant say? I said, he gave us a couch and gave us a blanket. So I run to my room, literally run. I pull this thing out.
18:53 Sure enough, there's a queen bed right there. Then every day, the attendant we had, he tears it down, because you can't even move once you set that thing up. So he tears it down every day
19:05 for us. And then every night, I'd have to put it back together. And I asked Aaron and Erica, isn't it annoying you how you have to put it back together every day? They said, no, our
19:16 attendant does that for us. Now my wife has been cruising her whole life,
19:28 so when I married her, I got a stat I got status with her little cruise line thing. That was Erin and Erica's first cruise. They have no status. They're nobody's on that
19:40 cruise ship. I got like a little pin. I got my own little section where I can sunbathe and my attendant ain't even telling me that I got another bed in my room.
19:52 And their attendant is showing them everything they need, what? To live an abundant life. Their attendant is showing them everything, every secret, setting it
20:04 up for them, bringing things into them, while the attendant I had, the mindset I had, the coach I had, the YouTube personality I had, the friend I
20:16 had, the boyfriend I had, the girlfriend I had, that voice I was listening to was like, hey, best of luck, but hey, in 7 days, you're gonna get this survey with a
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20:27 tip bag, and it's gonna say tip on it. I'd love for you to put something in there. I told my wife, because sometimes you can
20:39 prepay, you can prepay the tips before you get on. I say, we don't prepay tips no more. They gotta earn that joint. You gotta at least show me. You don't even have to set up for me. You gotta at least show me something
20:50 exists. That's what you gotta do. But how many times do we live in that place? You see the enemy, he may be showing you glitz and glamours and these false hopes and really he has this hope
21:02 to steal, kill, and destroy. You see, in today's age, things have began to change. There's some statistics that have been going around around death and here's what they say concerning,
21:14 young adults, but also everyone else. Half of Americans say that during the last 2 years, they've thought about death more often. Nearly half think about death at least once a month, and
21:26 23 percent think about death on a daily basis. More Gen Z ers, 35 percent think about death every day than any other generation compared to a 29 percent of Millennials,
21:38 21 percent of Gen z, and 14 percent of boomers. You see there is more death that is riddled today than ever before. And if you ever
21:50 thought and put together and thought to yourself, as the world continues at least in America to draw further and further away from Christ, would it not be a coincidence that the generation is
22:01 also getting closer and closer to thoughts of death? It just so happens to be coincidental. You see what happens is we know this if I gotta have a page that I can write on. This is what
22:13 we know. Passage we read John 10 10, which is what our church revolves around. Says that the enemy comes to steal, so we want to look at these 3 things real quick. Still,
22:25 kill, and destroy. As Jesus says, I came, you may have life and have it abundantly. But here's what happens. This is this is the Greek
22:37 terminology for what Jesus said. When he said abundant life, he said, Parissos Zoe. Zoe meaning life. Parissos meaning what we use
22:48 in English as abundant. But it's that's that's not really accurate because a lot of stuff in Greek which we've talked about before, it has bigger images and parallels that that not that words
23:00 can always contain because sometimes it symbolizes something. So we've talked about before that sin means to miss the mark, but it it actually meant like an archer missing a mark of an arrow or a
23:12 soldier with a slingshot missing the mark of hitting a target. And so it's less of the word and it's more about the picture that it entails is what the word So when you're translating that into English, it is sometimes
23:24 hard because you kind of just have to know the cultural image it's trying to portray. Parissos is 1 of those cultural images it's trying to portray. So what would that mean? Usually if you use
23:36 parisos it's usually after a statement or a word that you just said and you're trying to exclaim how it's the greatest version of the best side
23:48 of things that that could be. So if I were to If you were filling up your gas tank and the thing clicked off and I said, are you full? You
24:00 would say, yes I'm full. But if I came and I clicked it more and it sat there for another 2 minutes and now it begins to overflow, I would say, now it's Perissos. Now
24:12 it's the greatest version of what that could be. That's what that could be. And so we have to ask ourselves, what did Jesus just say and what is supposed to be the greatest version of what it could be? So
24:24 Jesus just gave us it. He said, the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy. He said, I came that I may give you a life, what? Greater than the other words
24:36 that I just proceeded with. So what you're supposed to do is actually give us the opposite of whatever these words are and the greatest form of those
24:47 words. So the Zoe, we know is just life. But what we would say is abundance here is really just,
25:00 it's meant to say whatever those 3 words are, take the greatest form of that word of what that could be. So, so, what is the greatest word and what is the greatest
25:11 opposite that you could stay for steal? Give. Or also generous. Generosity. I experienced
25:23 generosity sometimes at chick at at Chipotle. Sometimes I get someone that's willing to be generous in the scoops of chicken.
25:36 And I've learned, I know that they're supposed to fill that little baby spoon, but when that guy looks up at me and gives me a little wink, and he gives me a double scoop,
25:49 no charge, I'm thinking, this is generosity at its finest. When I go to McDonald's and I
26:00 say, can I get an extra barbecue sauce? And they say, normally it's 50 cents, but today it's on me. I think you've given me something, something generous. So then
26:12 you take kill. What's the greatest form of the opposite of kill? Life. But here's the thing, is kill something that's done over
26:24 time or is killing that's done in an action? It's a verb. It's not something that exists. You can't you can't keep killing something. When it when it's killed, it means it's killed. It's an
26:36 active verb. So therefore, life is not an active verb. But you want to know what is? Living. That's something that's continually active.
26:48 And then, you come over here, mean this was an obvious 1, what what is the opposite of the greatest form of destroy? Y'all are smart. You guys all got masters of divinities
27:00 today. So when Jesus says, John 10 10, the enemy comes to steal, the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. And I came that you
27:12 may have life and have it what? You may have life generously living to be built. Which means Jesus has a desire
27:24 to build your life generously. That is greater than the term abundance. So when we say as a
27:35 church, we're abundant living family church, we are a church where Jesus is building our lives daily because it's living, it's an active verb, living
27:47 generously more than I deserve, more than what the world is giving me. Because the world gives in a way so
27:59 long as you give back. I want you to think about the things that you take advantage of that give you something, and I want you to imagine you stop paying for those things. How often
28:11 do those things keep continuing to give back? But Jesus gives generously, building with no strings attached. 1 of
28:23 the most beautiful ways with some of the moments we have that Jesus begins to tell us, you know, Smith Wigglesworth, which is 1 of the greatest revivalists, Smith Wigglesworth once told us this. He said, this blessed
28:34 book brings such life and health and peace and such an abundance that we should never be poor anymore. It's found in a relationship with Christ and it'sShow more
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